Nine new tenure-track faculty have joined the Kenyon community and will begin teaching in Gambier this fall.
The new faculty members represent a broad academic spectrum as well as a diversity of expertise and experiences.
Acting Provost Sheryl Hemkin, whose office oversees the College’s academic division, said she is thrilled about the excellence represented by the newcomers.
“We’re excited to welcome these talented teacher-scholars to our faculty,” she said. “Our students will greatly benefit from their clear commitment to teaching and dedication to their scholarly and artistic work. I look forward to getting to know each person and having them as members of our community.”
Aashna Aggarwal grew up in Mumbai, India and spent two years in boarding school in Singapore before coming to the United States for undergraduate and graduate studies. Having attended a liberal arts college herself, she can’t wait to be on the other side of the classroom.
Holden Diethorn joins Kenyon after working as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is a labor economist specializing in the study of high-skilled labor markets where workers serve as primary inputs to research, innovation and entrepreneurship. 
Emily Ibrahim’s research focuses on how creative forms of communication shape the experiences of people living in diverse Islamic migrant settlements called “zongos” in Ghana, West Africa. Ibrahim also is cofounder of the nonprofit organization called the "Zongo Story Project" in which she works with students in Ghana to write, illustrate and tell stories that are meaningful to them. In 2016, their book “Gizo-Gizo: A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon” won the African Studies Association’s Africana Book Award for best children’s book.
Chris Levesque's research focuses on migration, demography and the far-reaching consequences of U.S. immigration law. Specifically, he looks at the legal process in newer immigrant destinations. He uses mixed methods to study the intersection between the criminal and immigration law — also referred to as “crimmigration” — examining the impacts of social stratification, detention, and legal access in the U.S. immigration court system. He is also interested in internal migration patterns in the metro and non-metro Midwest.
Zachary McGee teaches courses on American politics, particularly on the topics of Congress, political parties, and public policy. His research centers on questions of power among elites and utilizes a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative statistical modeling, archival work and interviews with elites.
Jessica Pruett’s research focuses on the relationship between lesbian feminist history and contemporary popular culture in the U.S., illuminating lesbian feminism’s significance for the queer and feminist political movements of today. She is currently at work on her first book project, “Sisters Unite: Popular Culture and the Lesbian Feminist Future.” Her scholarly writing has appeared in the journal Transformative Works and Cultures and the edited collection “a tumblr book: platform and cultures.”
Alyssa Quinn (she/they) is the author of the novel “Habilis” (Dzanc Books, 2022) and the prose chapbook “Dante's Cartography” (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2019). They are currently at work on a novel about the Great Salt Lake. 
Kamesh Regmi is a plant biologist with interests in cell biology, physiology, pathology and evolution of plants. He uses liverworts, mosses, lycopods and angiosperms as model organisms to explore the world of plants from the molecular to the organismal level.
Lauren Schmitt’s research focuses on managed ecosystems, including agroecosystems, restored forests and cities. She is especially interested in the ecology of sustainable food systems and has worked in temperate and tropical agricultural systems, including small-scale blueberry farms, barley breeding programs and coffee agroforests. Her work combines community and ecosystem ecology to look at how climate change and management decisions shape ecosystem dynamics.